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| Author: Julie Andrews
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 1550
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0786865652
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4028092
EAN: 9780786865659
ASIN: 0786865652
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Unendingly Interesting June 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is SO interesting! The first half is full of details that seem very pertinent to Julie's life story. I lost interest during the second half because I had a difficult time keeping up with all the different people in her life during that time. Still a very good read! She is an amazing woman!
 loved every page June 13, 2008
What a great life Ms Andrews is having, I hated to see the book end, please write another about your life now...
A frank and surprising autobiography June 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Julie Andrews will always be associated with the lovely characters she has played, such as Camelot's Queen Guenevere, sprightly nanny Mary Poppins, and the delightful Eliza Doolittle. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, to read this autobiography and learn about the dysfunctional family she grew up in. There was alcoholism, emotional abuse, and infidelity, but somehow Julie Andrews emerged as a lovely, somewhat vulnerable yet strong young woman. Her singing voice, amazingly mature at an early age, catapulted her to fame by the time she was 20 years old. She is very honest about her past and about those with whom she has lived and worked. The book ends with the birth of her first daughter, Emma Katherine, who was born just before Julie departed for the U.S. with her husband Tony Walton to work on Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins". Hopefully she will write another book about the second half of her life which will be just as interesting as her early years.
HOME: A MEMOIR BY JULIE ANDREWS June 11, 2008
HOME: A MEMOIR BY JULIE ANDREWS IS AN EXTREMELY READABLE BOOK, NICELY FORMATTED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED IN TWO SECTIONS. EXPLORES MID-20TH C LIFE IN RURAL ENGLAND, COMPLICATED LIVES OF HER PARENTS, AND THE STATE OF VAUDEVILLE AND THEN THEATRE OF THE ERA. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE BRITISH THEATRE ARTS & ACTORS OF THE TIME. MOVES READER FROM ENGLAND TO NEW YORK AND EXPLORES THE DIFFERENCES OF THE TWO SETTINGS. YOU TRULY DISCOVER JULIE ANDREWS' MINDSET ALL THE WAY ALONG HER ROAD TO SUPER-STARDOM. A NICE ADDITION TO ANY LIBRARY COVERING THEATRE ARTS. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Home - Almost A Love Story June 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whether as Maria Augusta von Trapp or Victor/Victoria, any role that Julie Andrews tackled assured her audience of several things: she would pour her heart and soul into the part, and, it would be a classy bit.
It is no surprise that her autobiography, HOME, is just as classy as the woman who wrote it. Although it stops with Julie Andrews on her way to Hollywood to make Mary Poppins, the parts of her life that were shadowed by her meteoric rise in popularity are now told in a clean, honest way.
Her childhood in England is discussed as is: the war; vaudeville and her early career on the stage in England. Without bragging, Julie Andrews enters the reader's mind as a dedicated, hard working and diligent performer who deserved to succeed.
There are sad parts as well: her dysfunctional family; a rather surprising introduction to a man whom she discovered was actually her father. However, Julie does not dwell on them or detail them with any sense of historonics or self pity. She is, and always was, a very strong woman.
I found her recollections on performing in MY FAIR LADY and CAMELOT to be of particular interest but there is not a dull or lagging part in this wonderful book.
Now, about the sequel . . .
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